For Sicilian painter Renato Guttuso, a monumental and heroic perception of the world was standard, as well as a huge zest for life. The world in his paintings is full of hectic life and high potential power. His bright and easily recognizable manner was always related to the images of modern life. Guttuso loved to paint the vibrant and vivid substance of a city.

Using energetic colorful splashes and dissolving contours, he tried to convey the complex categories of space and time. We see the painting composition through the consciousness of an introverted man crossing a square. The theme of loneliness in a big city sounds clearly in the atmosphere of this painting. The dynamic and intensive manner, strong brush strokes, and powerful linear rhythms organize the space and influence the color, precisely conveying the change of shapes happening before our eyes.